Top 100 Smarter Quotes
#2. Humans wore skin and clothes - many clothes instead of fur. Would have been smarter to grow fur, but humans were never smart.
Faith Hunter
#3. There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.
Ellen Galinsky
#4. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.
Jake M. Johnson
#5. We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We've just been to the last stop of this bus.
Sergei Dovlatov
#6. Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek
#7. We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.
Regina Brett
#8. Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
Harry Shearer
#9. Many people are smarter than their stupid bosses.
Toba Beta
#10. There was only one creature smarter than all of those doctors put together: the Internet. (Yes, it's a creature, okay?) I
Scott Adams
#11. I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.
Alex Hirsch
#12. We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
Nate Silver
#13. I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.
Ken Blanchard
#14. People ask me all the time how I survived. It wasn't that I was smarter or even stronger than anyone else. I didn't even know what I was doing. It was just that something inside me couldn't go along.
Eve Ensler
#15. I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
Jason Bateman
#16. In the most trying times, you would trust your people; you would extend hard challenges to them and allow them space to fulfill their responsibilities. You would access their intelligence in a way that would actually make them smarter.
Liz Wiseman
#17. The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.
Dick Gephardt
#18. You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
Will Rogers
#19. And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the way I write things down. I wish I didn't always feel like I was on the outside, looking in like a Peeping Tom.
Jacqueline Woodson
#21. In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.
Evan Williams
#22. Fast thinkers aren't smarter than slow. Collaborating in real time and over time leverages our collective value and limits pitfalls of both kinds of thinkers. Discuss options both face-to-face and virtually to enable fast and slow thinkers to optimize value for the team
Kare Anderson
#23. What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
Barack Obama
#24. In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.
David Mamet
#25. I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.
Tim Ferriss
#26. In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
Usher
#27. Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. Trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.
Marissa Meyer
#28. At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.
John Daniel
#29. We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
Dallas Willard
#30. She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her.
John Green
#31. It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.
Victor J. Stenger
#32. I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.
Martin Zweig
#33. What I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
Susan Sontag
#35. Sookie, you really are smarter than anyone gives you credit for being.
Charlaine Harris
#36. If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em. Even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.
Louis C.K.
#37. The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.
Judy Woodruff
#38. Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.
Cory Doctorow
#39. Nobody ever looks in the mirror and says, "Let's face it, I'm smarter than Gauss." And yet, in the last hundred years, the joined effort of all these dummies-compared-to-Gauss has produced the greatest flowering of mathematical knowledge the world has ever seen.
Jordan Ellenberg
#40. The more books you read,the smarter you get
Me
#41. I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.
Wentworth Miller
#42. Surface beauty ... is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see.
Alex Flinn
#43. If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
Rowan Pelling
#44. I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.
Mike Stud
#45. I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.
Cus D'Amato
#47. To lead, one must anticipate those that would attempt to stand in your way. By planning smarter, anticipating, and leaving nothing to chance, you can prevail.
Kelly Walker
#48. None of us is smarter than all of us.
Jim Rohn
#49. When someone believes they're smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they're very, very dangerous.
J.D. Robb
#50. You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.
Robyn Schneider
#51. I scowled and stabbed begrudginly at the stack before scooping up a bite with my fork, but it toppled over and plopped into my lap. I groaned and banged my head on the counter.
Mom frowned, 'You have to be smarter than the pancakes, Ellie.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#52. As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
Richard Posner
#53. The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
Ben Casnocha
#54. Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.
Ted Cruz
#55. I pulled back on the divorce because there is no rush for it. For medical decisions and a ton of other things, it's just smarter that it's put on hold.
Khloe Kardashian
#56. I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Brett Hull
#57. It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.
Emma Forrest
#58. My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it.
Brad Thor
#59. He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#60. Why I felt the need to always disobey everyone around me was beyond me. But I guess being sixteen years old made me susceptible to bouts of irrational behaviour and the occasional notion that I was in fact smarter than everyone else, regardless of whether or not that was true.
Kristy Berridge
#61. Foolish man, the woman spat coldly. A stronger, smarter generation is coming. They will walk the earth as the ashes of your organization rain from the skies.
Alessia Dickson
#62. But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
Tom Peters
#63. Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
Ina May Gaskin
#64. The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
Franz Grillparzer
#65. He slid his fingers over her jaw and tilted her face up to his. "You're smarter than hell, sexier than hell, and I like you way more than I should," he said.
Jill Shalvis
#66. Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
Franz Grillparzer
#67. I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
Damian Marley
#68. I am not as smart as you. I'm just smarter than you. Where is my Granola Bar, by the way?
Alankrita Verma
#69. Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.
Spider Robinson
#70. I wished Annabeth was here. She'd know what to make of my dream. I'd never admit it to her, but she was smarter than me, even if she was annoying sometimes.
Rick Riordan
#71. I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
Glenn Beck
#72. You must always remember... You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, and Smarter than you think." ~Christopher Robin
Brandy Lynn
#73. You're braver than you believe and stronger and smarter than you think.
A.A. Milne
#74. Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.
Elayne Boosler
#75. You are stronger, smarter and mmore powerful than you think.
Jan Porter
#76. Basketball Rule #2 (random text from Dad)
Hustle dig
Grind push
Run fast
Change pivot
Chase pull
Aim shoot
Work smart
Live smarter
Play hard
Practice harder
Kwame Alexander
#77. Love always finds you, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. It knows your hiding places. It's smarter than you'll ever be.
Katie Kacvinsky
#78. My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
Abigail Spencer
#79. What are you?" I said irritably.
"In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I'm stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don't apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.
Karen Marie Moning
#80. A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
Evan Esar
#82. How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
Matt Groening
#83. Parks joins her and they continue to boggle in unison. "Any idea?" the sergeant asks at last. Justineau shakes her head. "You?" "I prefer to look at all the evidence first. Then I get someone smarter than I am to explain it to me." They
M.R. Carey
#84. I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?"
"At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#85. Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#86. So I eagerly crack open the book and can feel myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages.
Matthew Quick
#87. Women, who are smarter than men in everything, mysteriously, don't seem to know how to parallel park.
Fausto Brizzi
#88. If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, "I'd sure like to understand this better," you end up doing precisely that.
Alex Gibney
#89. That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more.
Susan Mallery
#90. I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.
David Foster Wallace
#91. Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
Brett Hull
#92. In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.
David Heyman
#94. There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.
Joshua Michael Stern
#95. When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter
someone new? Someone better
maybe YOU!
Shel Silverstein
#96. That does not mean he is smarter than I am. I mean, can he draw a cat ?
Meg Cabot
#98. Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
#99. when there doesn't seem to be enough time for all you hope to accomplish, must you give things up (sleep, income, a clean house), or can you learn to condense activities, to do more in less time, to "work smarter, not harder,
Mason Currey
#100. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.
Steve Jobs
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